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I am using Word 2003, with Trados.On each new segment Word insists on capitalising the first letter. the point being that many times a new segment is not a new sentence (after colon, or semi colon, in a list, etc.). NO matter what I do I simply cannot get it to stop auto"correcting" to an upper case. I've tried altering the spell check defaults, even turning off check as you type, but nothing seems to work....TIA for any suggestions, it's driving me up the wall!!!

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Ctrl+Z will undo the last change, be it made by you or automatically. I find it easier to leave those autocorrect options "on" since they catch more than they annoy (with false positives) and when they kick in at wrong times I just press Ctrl+Z, the change is undone and I keep working.

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It should be part of a list in your autocorrect. Go tools, autocorrect and there is a list of functions there with a tick box beside them.Hope I'm not telling you somthing you already know, but if it hasn't worked then it is a defect of the system and you should probably reboot.

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Thanks very much everyone, I found the the autocorrect options under the tool menu. That is what I was not finding (I was looking under the options/spelling business, so what's so special about autocorrect options that they are not with all the other options? or call me stupid for not finding it anyway...).I found having to control z every time just too time consuming, and you have to do it at just the right time because if you have carried on typing the control z would apply to the wrong action.

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I know how you feel.Actually, Word 2003 has a nifty function that could let you import all your custom settings (menu icons, user dictionaries - everything) from a nifty little .OPS file, so whenever you reinstalled or wanted to migrate your settings to a different computer, you just needed to use that file and everything would be just as you like it.

Sadly, this function is gone in Word 2007.

Pawel Skalinski

[Edited at 2010-05-20 19:49 GMT]

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Whenever I found myself typing a certain sentence over and over again in a document, I will check the rest of the document.. If I see that I have to type many more of the same sentence to the end of the document, I set this feature up so that whenever I type only 3 or 4 alphabets and press enter, it will auto-correct it.

For example, if I see that I have to type a lot of : "For your information" through out the document, then I will do:- Click "Tools"- Click "Autocorrect"- Input in the column under "Replace" text : "FYI"- Input in the column under "With" text : "For Your Information"

Here is one annoying 'helpful' feature in Word that I have never been able to get round. While typing the translation of a legal document from Turkish into English, it is necessary to use certain Turkish characters in proper names. I simply switch the keyboard to Turkish, type the necessary character and switch back. All fine and good. However, if I do this, Word then automatically shifts the language of the text from that point on into Turkish. I really rely on getting those red lines beneath typos as soon as I make them, and once the language has changed it does not do this. Is there any way I can set the default text language as 'UK English' (in my case) so that it will not automatically shift to another language unless I specifically wish for this?

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